Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 16:36:27 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD suitable laptop Message-ID: <20000815163627.A1849@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000814002928.82900A-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>; from dscheidt@enteract.com on Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:33:46AM -0500 References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000814002928.82900A-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>
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On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:33:46AM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > I need a laptop, preferably one that comes out of the box ready to run > FreeBSD. New, or second hand? I can wholeheartedly recommend pretty much anything from the Sony Vaio range. I'm writing this on a F270 (PII/333, 64MB RAM, 6GB disk), and next to me I have an F709 (PIII/750, 128MB RAM, 18GB disk). The 270 is superb -- suspend to disk and memory work well, and FreeBSD 4.x supports the sound card, and XFree86 works out of the box. It doesn't have built in networking or a modem, so I use two PCMCIA cards, which just work. I'm just playing around with the 709 at the moment. Suspend to disk no longer works (I suspect it needs a file on a FAT partition to swap to, not just a spare partition, so the BIOS has been altered since the 270) and it uses the NeoMagic 256XL+ graphics card, which doesn't work out of the box in XFree86 -- there are instructions in the -mobile mailing list archives. It's got a built in modem, but I haven't had a chance to play with that yet. I know Jim Mock and Bill Swingle run the smaller, lighter Vaios. You'll also get recommendations on the -mobile mailing list. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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